2023 world championship of poker, She is now in the back half of her schedule, with 60 bracelets and over $166.6 million in prize money awarded to date. Here’s a look at the latest winners from this year’s series.
2023 WSOP $1000 No Limit Team Hold’em
Usually, a WSOP Bracelet only awarded when one player remains in the event. That’s not the case for the annual $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em tag team event, although a pair of players come away with the gold medal in this unique tournament that sees two competitors team up and take turns in the same stack. Satoshi Tanaka and Michael Savakinas were the last team standing, topping a record 1,282 teams securing the first bracelets and paying out $190,662 (or $95,331 each if they split it down the middle).
Both Ohio natives earned their largest live championship payouts for this win. Tanaka’s highest cashout before that came when he finished second in the $400 No-Limit Hold’em event during 2020 WSOP Connected Festival in the amount of $68,373. Savakinas’ previous highest result was a 17th-place finish in the World Cup WSOP Harrah’s Cherokee Circuit $1,700 for the Main Event this spring for $15,484.
Other deep running teams included Joseph Cheung/Rob Perelman (14th), Justin Pesci/Ronnie Barda (9th), David Williams/Theo Tran (7th), and Vincent Muscati/Tanner Pipat (2nd).
Here’s a look at the payouts awarded in the final table:
place | players | earnings |
1 | Michael Savakinas – Satoshi Tanaka | $190,662 |
2 | Vincent Muscati – Tanner Pipat | $117,872 |
3 | Jonah LaBranche – Dustin Wells | $85,040 |
4 | Ricky Evans – Roberto Valdez | $62,090 |
5 | John Ventry – Kenneth Gallo | $45,884 |
6 | Marcus Stein – Amber Donatelli | $34,326 |
7 | David Williams – Theo Tran | $26,000 |
8 | Carlos Inukay – Emanel Avila | $19,942 |
9 | Justin Beachy – Ronnie Barda | $15,492 |
2023 WSOP $2,500 lobul for a triple mixed raffle
Nick Popelo came into 2023 WSOP A $2,500 mixed triple draw event with over $4.7 million in winnings from previous cycles across 329 registered exchange funds. While he has 21 championship titles under his belt including three WSOP Circuit Gold Ring victories, he has never taken a bracelet event in this series.
This all changed when Pupillo emerged at the top of a field of 353 entries in the aforementioned triple-draw tournament, which featured a combination of low-draw seven-to-seven triple-ball, ace-to-five tie-three-ball rap, and badogee. Pupillo took home $181,978 and his first bracelet for the win.
Lots of high-profile players have joined Pupillo on the final few tables, including Maria Ho (25th), Kari Katz (18th), four-time bracelet winner Robert Mizrachi (17th), and five-time bracelet winner John Monette (16th). , twice. Time bracelet winner Joao Vieira (tenth), five-time winner Ray Henson (ninth), bracelet winner Andrew Brown (eighth), two-time Anatolii Zyrin bracelet (seventh), and two-time World Poker Tour champion Aaron Mermelstein (third).
Here is a look at payments and POY Points awarded at the final table:
place | player | earnings | POY points |
1 | Nicholas Popelo | $181,978 | 900 |
2 | Ryan Moriarty | $112,472 | 750 |
3 | Aaron Mermelstein | $74,545 | 600 |
4 | Tomomitsu Ono | $50,608 | 450 |
5 | High Park | $35,212 | 375 |
6 | Brant Hill | $25,126 | 300 |
7 | Anatoly Zyrin | $18,398 | 225 |
2023 WSOP Online $1,000 Palestine’s libiration organisation championship
ninth WSOP Connected handed over to the bracelet WSOP.com players located within the borders of Nevada and New Jersey got a win from Stanislav Barchak. He earned his first bracelet and $128,842 for besting a field of 383 entries in the $1,000 buy-limit Omaha event.
This was Bershak’s first six-figure tournament score. Prior to that, his highest cashout was at No. 4 in 2012 WPT Denmark event in the amount of $68,361. The Illinois native now has over $750,000 in his lifetime cashed to his name.
Among the big names to make money at the event in 2013 WSOP Main Event Champion Ryan Reese (36), 2021 WSOP Main Event Champion Koray Aldemir (34th place), 2017 PokerStars Bahamas Championship Main event winner Christian Harder (33rd), Shannon Shore (32nd), bracelet winner Steve Gross (21st), recent online bracelet winner Ian Matakis (29th), bracelet winner Nacho Barbero (27th) , six-time bracelet winner Sean Depp (26th), three-time bracelet winner Jim Collopy (22), three-time bracelet winner Dan Zack 94), and runner-up Chris DeMaci.
Here’s a look at the payouts awarded in the final schedule:
place | player | earnings |
1 | Stanislav Barshak | $128,842 |
2 | Christopher DeMacy | $79,040 |
3 | Chris Leslie Heenan | $54,655 |
4 | Daniel Zak | $38,398 |
5 | Pranay Kapoor | $27,418 |
6 | Jonathan Deba | $19,896 |
7 | Carlos Alvarado | $14,740 |
8 | Christophe Segers | $11,101 |
9 | Vincent Muscati | $8,492 |
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Winner photo credits: WSOP / Spencer Simpratt, Rachel Kay Miller.